But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.

For now indeed is the race of iron; and men never cease from labour and sorrow by day and from perishing by night.

If you speak evil, you will soon be worse spoken of.

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

The fool learns by suffering.

A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.

Invite your friend to dinner; have nothing to do with your enemy.